Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-01-20
Is MRS. EMM0Ns AN INEBRyATEl
That In what One 0f the Jurors Asked
DR.. GOddimy TO.slay.

Is MRS. ENM0Ns AN INEBRyATE,
That IL What One sf the Jurors Asked
Dr. Godding To-day.
DR. eopDrNa THINKS THAT AKcoHoi. MIGHT rysETrrK
HKR NIND-pR. LINCOLN SAYS SHE rs SANE But
PECULIAR AND EccExrRic-A DAY IN corRr WIFE,
OCT MRS. RNNoNs
MIS- Emmons did not come to court this morn
Ing. ner counsel having prevailed upon her 10
remain at her hotel There was q falling on also
Ia the attendance OF women, but the court room
was crowded, as the places OF the absent women
were nlled by men. Dr. Goddngs cross-examina-
tion was continued by Mr.. Kent He admitted
tnat ne had told Mr.. Montgomery Blair, of MT.
hmmons' counsel, on the Sd inst, that II Mrs
Emmons were sister OF his he would place her
under the care OF such q man as Dr. Jones or DR..
smith, who Is In charge OF the Connecticut asylum
Wnere MS Emmons was under treatment for
ume. In reply to Juror Perry DR. Godding said
ne did not think Mrs Emmons had dipsomania.
He distinguished between alcoholism and dipsom-
ania- He thought that In the case OF woman
VI MIS- SIMMONS temperament and physical con-
dition, that q small quantity OF alcohol might
produce enects that might be considered mani.
leststons OF insanity: He thought this the most
woman who seemed so bright and brilliant. He
Old not regard her as incoherent but unstable
OF parenthetical mind Such peculiartfes would
be intensified BY the use OF alcoholic stimuiants
Juror Perry asked IL he would cali her an tnebri-
a1e, ana inc witness said that the case. as pre-
Senteu 10 MIN by testimony and by his own OBJ
tnebriate.
The doctor, upon redirect examination, said in
explanation OF his term ''parenthetical mind"
that Mrs. EmmonS' was discurSve but not SO dis
cursive or so parenthetical as Thomas Carlyle
she always came back TO the point
juror Gawer, referring to a statement by the
witness that Mrs. Emmons was a spoiled child
asked II such a person were refused what they
has afatcn
unbalance their mind.
The witness said he thought such a person
would be more likely to become enraged and
might more easily be made insane. He thought
the events OF Mrs. Emmons early life-havlng
been twice divorced before she was twenty-one-
would have been likely to have exaggerated her
peculiar tendencies and traits.
In answer TO Mr.. Kent, DR.. Godding said that he
tnought MIS- Emmons' state OF mind was such
down her mind
Mr.. Garrett objected to this testimony as II re-
lated not TO her present condition but what might
occur II she did use alcohol, q question that The
jury had hot 10 consider.
DR.. Godding said ne had called on Mrs. Emmons
last winter In response TO a note from Mr.. Emnons
VINO asked him about getting admittance for ais
wife to his hospital, but there was then no room
there. he asked then as to the best means OF get
ing her into some other asylum. The witness adj
Weed him TO use no deception with her.
DIR. LINCOLN A WITNESS.
DR.. Nathan S. Lincoln, OF this city, was next
called to the stand and testified TO professional
visits he had made to Mrs. EEmons before she was
sent TO Bl0omingdale. Her condition was such
taat he thought she should be sent 10 inSti-
tuition where She could be restrained and con-
trolied while she was being treated He said that
at his suggestion the letter was obtained from Dr.
Sims asking Mrs. Emmons to come to New York for
treatment. He did not remember that Blooming
dale was talked OF at that time, but his view was
then That she should be taken where she could
be detained longer than She could be at Providence
hospital here. The witness described other in
terv1ews down to the one at which he was present
n m of mi tad IN
remove his wife to take her TO the Butler hospital
ana the witness objected That Was the time when
Mr. Garnet and Major Moore We're sent LOT. The
doctor said that in his examinations OF MIS-. Em.
mons he had seen no evidence OF insanity.
She Is very eccentric, he said, Every peculiar"
He had seen her before her illness, preceding her
confinement In the Bloomingdaie asylum, and
saw no difference in her now from what she was
.nen. he said that knowing Mrs. Emmons as he
ul0, the testimony OF DIR. Smith did not, TO his
mind, offer evidence of insanity. He had, he said,
very nigh respect Tor DIR. kempSter. There was.
however, such an antagoniSm between Mrs. En-
mons and Dr. Kempster that one could not APP
preciate the other.
DR.. Lincoln said he had called professionally on
Mrs. Emmons in the spring OF 1854. AT one inter-
view Then She told him OF great misfortune that
had befallen her. She seemed much distressed.
she told him then the story about the letters she
had obtained from Philadelphia, just she had
told to the jury. She said he asked her to read
and he read one of the letters.
On crosS-examinaJlon the witness admitted that
In March, 1886, he had testified in the proceedings
de tuit0tc0 in MIS- EmmOnS' case. The witness
said that he had seen more OF Mrs. Emmons since
then, and had changed his opinion.
He said that before her recent departure for
Europe Mr. EmmonS said that she was In such con-
dition that II he opposed her In anything he would
put her in such condition that he would be en-
abled to put her back into an asylum or mad
house. He found that he was opposing all the
arrangements she was making; that was what
Mrs. EmmonS told him. He told Mrs. Emmons
what her husband said, rs he thought she ought
to be on her guard. He advised her not to go to
Europe, because he thought 1t was injudiciOuS but
her husband permitted her to go. He said he told
her at one time, Or advised her. to have her hus-
band arrested.
THE STORY TOLD HIM By HER
was that he had seen him by reflection in q mir
ror empty her medicine vial and put some other
mixture In it; that she took one dose OF 1t to see
what effect it would have and found it had a
peculiar effect on her nervous system. Then she
filled the bottle with water, and kept on and
the operation had been repeated when the
vial was empty. She told him also that she had
awaked one morning and found both gas burners
in her room turned on, the windows closed and
the room filled with gas This she attributed TO
her husband. 1t was then on the impulse OF the
moment he advised her to have him arrested. Mrs.
EmmOnS afterwards called on him. denied these
things, said she had got up in the night and
turned on the gas herself That Was one OF her
vagarieS. He asked the witness IL he had ad-
vised his wife to have him arrested. and then
asked him not to poison his w1fe's mind against
him.
THE LETTERS OBTAINED FROM THE PHILADELPHIA